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This is an interesting document in the history of graphic design, since as far as I know, it was the first published process color chart.

Waller was also an accomplished graphic designer in his own right, and the frontispiece he designed for his 1684 translation of Saggi dell’ Esperienze Naturali fatte nell’ Accademia del Cimento will be included in a forthcoming GALLERY exhibit on the use of female emblematic types to symbolize the arts & sciences and their institutions.

RELATES TO: the PDF publication, Time, Soul, Memory (LIB. CAT. NO. DTP2003); the series of GALLERY exhibits pertaining to the history of graphic and information design; an ISSUES webessay on the politics of visual representation


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	Richard Waller’s A Catalogue of Simple and Mixt Colours (1686) This is an interesting document in the history of graphic design, since as far as I know, it was the first published process color chart. Waller was also an accomplished graphic designer in his own right, and the frontispiece he designed for his 1684 translation of Saggi dell’ Esperienze Naturali fatte nell’ Accademia del Cimento will be included in a forthcoming GALLERY exhibit on the use of female emblematic types to symbolize the arts & sciences and their institutions. RELATES TO: the PDF publication, Time, Soul, Memory (LIB. CAT. NO. DTP2003); the series of GALLERY exhibits pertaining to the history of graphic and information design; an ISSUES webessay on the politics of visual representation
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